Investor interviews with Adam Draper & Les Borsai

This week’s show includes two ICO Spotlights, featuring Props by YouNow and Telcoin – both of which launched just this week. Our investor interviews continue with Adam Draper of Boost VC, Les Borsai. Plus, hear about the Bitcoin futures launch on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and find out the impact that had on the popular cryptocurrency.

April 17, 2018

ICO Spotlight: ICO Insight featuring Pocketful of Quarters and Uulala

March 5, 2018

ICO Spotlight: Cryptyk

April 3, 2018

ICO Spotlight: Celsius Network

Expert Interview: with George Weiksner

February 27, 2018

ICO Spotlight: Property Coin

Expert Interview: Professor Dr. Bhagwan Chowdhry

Spotlight

Investor Spotlights

Adam Draper, Founder, Boost VC

Co-Founded Xpert Financial while still in his senior year at UCLA. Has recently launched Boost Incubator (www.boost.vc) an incubator based in San Mateo geared toward mentoring startups to help them get to the next level..

Les Borsai

Consulting to mobile, web-based game companies which require music-based content. Marketing, business development and music content acquisition. Mobile monetization, ad revenue generation, in-app purchasing, mobile development for big brands and business strategy.

Les Borsai spent the first decade of his music and entertainment industry career focused on touring and artist management, starting as a talent buyer at Avalon Attractions (now Live Nation) and later at Bill Silva Management and his own Modern Artist Management. In the past ten years, he has become one of the top digital music entrepreneurs with a focus on mobile, apps and games, founding both the iPhone app developer gridMob and the synch licensing platform for apps and games Songlily.

ICO Spotlight

Adi Sideman, Founder and CEO of YouNow

Adi Sideman is a pioneer in participatory media, an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience creating apps and companies in the user-generated video space. Adi founded YouNow in 2011 to provide a live social platform for people to connect, interact, and express themselves. YouNow grew to be a global social network with more than 40 Million users and over 120 million user sessions per month. YouNow was a finalist for TechCrunch&rsquo;s Fastest Rising Startup of 2015 Awards.

Claude Eguienta, CEO & Co-Founder of Telcoin

Claude Eguienta is the Co-Founder & CEO of Telcoin. He has been working for startups and large tech companies for a decade after graduating with a Masters in Computer Science, focused on distributed systems. He also co-founded Kabotip, a crypto startup which went through the OnLab incubator after working as a lead systems architect at CyberAgent. Claude is also an advisor at TenX, a blockchain startup that allows multiple cryptocurrencies spendable anytime, anywhere.

Ken Nguyen, Co-Founder of Republic

Hustling 24/7 at Republic with a committed team to bring angel investing to main street. If everyone - irrespective of their income or net worth - invests with purpose today, we can shape tomorrow's world. Besides Republic, I'm the founding adviser of CoinList, an ICO platform, and of NOW, a venture capital platform led by Shiza Shahid, who co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. My prior business experience focused on fundraising, ops, product strategy and investment - most recently at AngelList. Once a securities litigator and a Stanford Law Fellow, I now apply my legal chops towards a semi-active pro bono practice.

Hosts

Amy Wan

Amy Wan is Founder & CEO of Bootstrap Legal/Sagecoin, a legaltech startup. Previously, she was a Partner at Crowdfunding Lawyers and General Counsel at Patch of Land, a real estate debt crowdfunding platform. Amy is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.

Amy has also worked in international regulatory and trade policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.

Adam Chapnick

Adam Chapnick is a globally recognized serial entrepreneur known for disrupting long-established industries with tech-supported new-model approaches. He&rsquo;s an active consultant to tech founders on strategy, operations, and financing.

Adam was a Principal at Indiegogo, which he helped build into the world&rsquo;s largest crowdfunding platform, with over 200,000 campaigns, users in over 175 countries, operating in 4 languages and 5 currencies.

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